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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 May 1901, Page 2

Wo remind our Brunner readers of the grand concert to be given on Saturday night in aid of the Catholic Church Organ Fund. The programme will appear as an inset in to-morrow night’s paper.

In another column appears the alteration in the railway time-table. This Department has put an extra train on to Rcefton on Monday morning in order to meet with the increasing traffic on that line and made other alterations in order to meet requirements.

The Catholic Choir concert at Taylorville will have an extra attraction on Saturday evening. Messrs Walton and Miller during the interval will show a number of local lantern views, amongst them being the Brunner Rifles in their new uniforms.

The State Premier strongly objects to the statement that the celebrations in connection with the Royal visit to Sydney will cost £50,000. They will not cost more than £B4BI 10s 6d, to bo precise, he says:—Of this £2078 5s 6d will represent material, which will be avail-' able for future use. £2700 will be for labor.

The following are the names of players chosen to represent Brunner against Hokitika next Saturday:—T. Hallinan, R. Gardner, T Todd, W. Carse, E. Nelson, H. Gage, W. Fisher, J. Anderson, J. Hallinan, E. Hallinan, J. McLeod, J. Connolly. J. Horrick, G, Kaye, W. Anderson; emergencies—P. Finlay, T. Smith, W. Manderson, and Tomkies. The question of the nationalisation of the industries of the colony is daily becoming of greater interest, Agitation' is springing up especially on the question of State colleries. The Trinity Church Debating Society, who seem to have made it a point of having plenty of up-to-date subjects on their syllabus this sesson, will discuss the question this evening. Mr H. D. Edwards will lead in favour of nationalisation and Mr J. McKittrick in the negative. Visitors are cordially invited. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather there was a very large attendance at the Druids meeting last evening. The usual routine of business was disposed of. Two candidates were initiated and two more proposed for membership. A committee was appointed to report at next meeting, as to best method of carrying out the annual ball. After a little harmony the Lodge closed.

The social dance inagauated by the Waverley Assembly on Wednesday, in aid of the Martin Memorial Fund, have got matters well under way. Tickets are being sold freely, good music will bo provided, and generally everything points 1o a financial success and a welcome addition to the Martin Memorial Fund.

Quite a flutter of excitement was created in town yesterday afternoon when word was passed around that the small schooner, Ngaru, was heading straight for the bar, this too in face of a strong current and a heavy sea, On she came however, with “ flowing sails,” through the broken waters like a creature of life and up against the heavy current in grand style. The little craft was splendidly handled and safely berthed alongside the wharf, the captain and her crew meeting with hearty cheers from those on the wharf.

The regular meeting of the Groymouth Jockey Club was held in the Club room Albion Hotel last night. Present Messrs Petrie (chair) Smith, Walton, M’Kay, Doogan, Yarrell, Claughsey, M’Carthy. Gieseking and Bignell. Mr E. M. Sheedy was nominated as a member. The various dates of the several Clubs under the Grey Metropolitan were reviewed, and it was suggested that Nelson in their own interest and that of the Westport Club be advised to go a week forward to Avoid clashing. The racing dates for the Grey mouth Jockey Club were fixed for 31st December and Ist January, and the Autumn Meeting for the 17th and 18th March. Several small accounts were passed for payment. Mr Yarrall (treasurer to the Club) and hfr M’Kay were appointed trustees for the Jockeys’and Trainers’ Funds.

By an advertisement in another column of this issue it will be seen that Mr Baxter has bought that new and substantial hotel, situate at Stillwater, formerly in the occupation of Mr O’Brien, Travellers, tourists, and others can rely upon the best accomodation being found at this wellknown hostelry at which only the best brands of wines, spirits, and ales are being retailed. Mrs Mcßride, having secured those centrally situated refreshment rooms in Boundary Street, lately occupied by Mrs Turley, invites a share of public patronage. Only the finest of goods will bo retailed. Refreshments and hot pics may be had at a 1 hours.

A public meeting is to bo held in the Kumara Town Hall this evening, at 7 o’clock to urge the Government to extend the railway to Ross. The delegates from Ross and Hokitika are to attend.

The plant which the Railway Department is getting from England for the purpose of crcosoting the sleepers for use in the North Island lines will arrive in "Wellington about the end of the year. It is to be erected at Wqodville The barque Santiago, which arrived in Wellington from London on Tuesday, brought 200,000 gallons of oil, with which to treat the sleepers. The crcosoting process is a very simple one. The timber to be treated is placed on a small trolley, which is run along a lino of rails into a large iron tube, the cnds_ of which are then closed. Jfc it is applied and the timber soon becomes dry, after wiich creosote is forced into every pore of it. A soft wood sleeper, which has boon creosoted lasts as long as one. of hard wood that has not been subjected to the process and the cost of treatment is comparatively small. The plant which is to bo erected at Woodville will treat 500 sleepers a day. It is probable that a similar plant will be obtained' for the South Island,

The Wellington correspondent of the Ofcogo Daily Times says :—Whilst Mr. R. M’Kenzie, M.H.R., has proved himself in many ways a capable chairman of the Midland Railway Commission, ho has at times been inclined to be rather dicta; torial in his manner, not only to witnesses but to even his fellow commissioners. The latter have resented his conduct on more than one occasion. At a sitting on Saturday, Mr. M’Kenzio occasionally spoke as if ho were judge and the other commissioners merely assessors. Messrs Fraser and Graham, M-H.R’s, took exception to his attitude. The member for Nelson was particularly pointed in his remarks, which wore directed to showing that Mr McKenzie was only one member of the commission, and could not speak for a body unless authorised by the other members, When counsel left the room at the close of tho sitting sparks were beginning to fly in earnest. Sydney may be reckoned now (says the Sydney Newsletter) as one of the great cities of tho world, containing as it does, with its actual suburbs, over half-a-mil-lion of people. It is thehsccond city of tho Empire out of Europe, tho first being Bombay, and it is also second as a maritime city, although the leading port outside of London is Hongkong, but in actual importance in all elements of greatness it may be reckoned second only to London. Many of its suburbs are in themselves large towns, the first of these being Ea main with over thirty thousand. Then follows North Sydney with over twenty-four thousand, and then Newtown and Paddington, esch with over twentytwo thousand. These are big figures, and large populations • such as these should be entrusted with extensive powers for self-government, that is if they can secure tiro services of able capmen for aldermanic duties,

The Hamilton (Waikato) Borough Council has decided to consider a suggestion that steps should be taken to establish a college and technical school of agriculture, with experimental farm and model beet sugar plant attached, to be called the Victoria College and School of Agriculture for Waikato, in honour and memory of Queen Victoria, and of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall to Waikato and New Zealand, the college to be endowed by lands to be set apart by the Crown for technical education in Waikato, by voluntary donations supplemented by State contribution on the same basis as our Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards, or otherwise. The Vatican at first made little parade of what they felt at the announcement in London, that no special mission would be sent to the Holy See to announce King Edward’s accession to the Throne. It is now leaking out (says the Home correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette) that all are greatly disappointed, each in his own way. The College of Cardinals, as a whole, feels that the dignity of the Church has been attacked; the Secretary of State, and Cardinal Kampolla, are angry ; while Leo XIII, himself is hurt, and if the truth must be told, somewhat astonished. “ This I did not expect,” he is said to have exclaimed ; “ times indeed are changed in England 1 ” The feeling, in fact, with all is something more than disappointment, they having, consciously or unconsciously, become so accustomed to Protestant toleration that they take it for granted that nothing will be done to rub English' Catholic susceptibilities the wrong way. The average price paid for the remounts purchasee in Poverty Bay by the Agricultural Department under instructions from the War Office was £ls per head. Apropos of the question of the site of the capital which is vexing the souls of patriotic folk, says the Newsletter (Sydnej’), it may not bo out of place to point out that with the possible exception of Madrid, which is in no sense of the word a commercial city, all the capital sites of the civilised world are located on navigable waters. London, to wit, with its eight million inhabitants, New York, Paris, Chicago, Constantinople, St Petersburg, and so on; and it must be remembered the present, is an age of large cities, which are now very numerous, In olden times a city with a million of inhabitants was scarcely over in existence ; now there are many such. It has been customary on the New Zealand coast in cases where a seaman absented himself from a vessel to deduct pay for such absence, and when he was to be paid he was usually brought before the shipmaster or the local Superinteddent of Mercantile Marine. If the man made no objection the matter ended, but if he objected to the deduction then the matter was referred to the Magistrate. Lately, however, a circular has been issued to the Superintendents instructing them that that procedure was illegal, and that in all eases the matter should come before a Magistrate. A case of the kind came before the Dunedin Magistrate last week, when a coal-trimmer was convicted of absence without leave and ordered to forfeit 8s Bd. The representative of the Union Company pointed out to the Court that the necessity for bringing such cases inflicted a sort of hardship on the men, who were dragged into a Police Court for a trivial affair in which they were not desirous of publicity. Ho hoped that the ventilation thus afforded the matter would lead to a reversion to the original custom, which was convenient for both owners and the crew.